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Item # 4.1. <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Jeff Gongoll, Community Development Director <br />DATE: December 8, 2008 <br />SUBJECT: Residential Rental Licensing Program Expansion <br />Premise <br />Expand the licensing and inspections of all residential rental properties in the City. <br />Background <br />In early 1995, the City established a draft Housing Maintenance Code "... to ensure rental <br />property is kept in a healthy and safe condition, and does not detract from adjacent property <br />values." It was the consensus at the time to begin enforcement with apartment buildings. <br />Further, and through this initial activity, the inspection program was defined as apartments <br />of four (4) or more rental units. <br />Since then, this has remained the City's practice with these enforcement activities; i.e., the <br />City, through the Fire Inspector, performs the inspections on residential rental properties of <br />four (4) or more units. The Building Safety Inspectors are not part of the inspection process <br />at this time. <br />Discussion <br />Regardless of past practice, the City Code provides for the inspection of all residential rental <br />properties. Sec. 30-152 states the City is to "... safeguard life, health, property, and public <br />welfare by regulating the occupancy and maintenance of all rental residential buildings and <br />structures within the city." <br />Additionally, Sec. 30-157 establishes the International Property Maintenance Code as the means to <br />enforce the provisions for all rental residential properties. Further, and more specifically, <br />Division 3. Rental Dwelling License defines the code enforcement duties and requirements <br />for licensing and inspecting all residential rental properties within the City (Sections 30-191 <br />through 30-199.). <br />